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Jihan Abass
Jihan Abass Founder & CEO of Lami Jihan is currently the Founder and CEO of Lami,  an insurance as a service platform that aims to increase insurance penetration across Africa. The Griffin Motor App is Lami’s flagship product and has shortened the purchase process of car insurance to less than 2 minutes.   Prior to...
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Carmelle Cadet
Carmelle Cadet Chief Executive Officer/Founder Emtech Carmelle M. Cadet is a Fintech Founder, CEO, Public Speaker and Advisor working with central banks around the world to make their financial infrastructures inclusive and resilient by design.  Her work through her company EMTECH focuses on developing the next generation of technologies that drive financial inclusion, economic development...
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Simeon Ononobi
Simeon Ononobi Co-founder & CEO ThankUCash Simeon Ononobi is the current CEO and co-founder of ThankUCash, a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African Banks and Businesses.   ThankUCash has just concluded the integration into over 177,000 payment terminals in Nigeria. ThankUCash serves businesses of all sizes - from startups, small retailers, big bucks stores...
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Kojo Boakye
Kojo Boakye Head, Public Policy, Meta Kojo Boakye is the Head, Public Policy, Meta. He’s an experienced ICT for Development Practitioner, with more than 10 years’ experience working with governments, fixed-line and mobile operators, development partners, online service providers, content developers and civil society organisations. Before joining Meta, he was the Deputy Director of the...
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Apollo Sande
Apollo Sande Country Manager for Kenya & Uganda Luno  Apollo joined Luno in 2019 and currently holds the position of Country Manager for Kenya and Uganda. Prior to his current role, he has worked in open source software support and commercialisation, and led teams in hardware prototyping at Gearbox and Kivuli Fablab, Kenya. He is...
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Carmelle Cadet
Carmelle Cadet Chief Executive Officer/Founder Emtech Carmelle Cadet is an experienced Finance and Business Leader in the Enterprise IT sector, with specializations in the Financial Services, Treasury Management, and Blockchain Technologies.  As former IBM Finance and Business Executive Ms. Cadet managed multi-million software portfolios, while delivering over 100% year over year revenue growth.  EMTECH’s success...
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Simeon Ononobi
Simeon Ononobi Co-founder & CEO ThankUCash Simeon Ononobi is the current CEO and co-founder of ThankUCash, a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African Banks and Businesses.   ThankUCash has just concluded the integration into over 177,000 payment terminals in Nigeria. ThankUCash serves businesses of all sizes - from startups, small retailers, big bucks stores...
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Akin Sawyerr
Akin Sawyerr Chief Innovation Officer at Onramp Akin Sawyerr is Chief Innovation Officer at Onramp. Onramp is a comprehensive crypto asset management solution allowing financial advisors to help their clients safely, confidently, and intelligently invest in the new age. Akin previously led Strategy and Partnerships at Barnbridge, a tokenized risk protocol that builds open source...
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